雷蔵の死により12作に及んだ“眠狂四郎“シリーズは終了したが、その3ヵ月後、早くも松方弘樹主演によって復活した。ベテラン監督・森一生も“狂四郎“シリーズは初めての演出。将軍・家斉の世継ぎ・家慶になりすました双子の弟の、陰謀に巻き込まれる狂四郎の活躍を描く。
The true story is of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was Stalin's private film projectionist from 1939 until Stalin's death. Told from Sanchin's view, the sympathetic but tragically flawed hero, squirrel, maintains unwavering faith in his "Master" despite the arrest of his neighbors and his involvement with their daughter, his wife's affair with the chilling State Security chief Lavrentii Beria and her tragic decline, and the deadly political machinations within the Kremlin he witnesses firsthand.
